Hi can I have a PPP Can anyone please give me some advice on how to stop my son…

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Hi can I have a PPP

Can anyone please give me some advice on how to stop my son stealing chocolate from the cupboards – I’m at my wits end.

My son is 7 and has had all chocolate and sweets removed from his diet on and off (mostly off) since around the age of 3. We have found that these foods send him loopy (and having been diagnosed with ADHD he is already pretty high maintenance). We have found that every time we have tried to reintroduce chocolate / sweets back into his diet he starts stealing large volumes of it from the cupboards and it takes months to break him back out of the habit! We therefore haven’t tried reintroducing either since Easter 2015 and all was fine until Easter this year whereby I was bed bound with morning sickness so in the evening spent my time in the bedroom rather than the living room, during which time he snuck out of his room each night to steal and eat almost half of the Easter gifts we had brought for family and friends. Ever since he has been stealing it from the cupboards on a regular basis.

Now, bazarrly he has never had any problem with others eating chocolate around him, he declines it from parties or gives his to a friend and even today he pointed out that there was a chocolate coating on the Cornetto ice creams I’d picked up for us so wanted to swap them for something else. I’m therefore wondering if it’s even about the chocolate at this stage or if it’s just an impulse thing because it’s something he’s not allowed? Either way I need this to stop, as although his habit is limited to chocolate from our home at current, bad habits can easily escalate, and I don’t want to be dealing with more serious issues of theft as he gets older.

So far we have tried treat bans for a set period (he’s usually allowed alternative treats such as cakes and biscuits), grounding him, making him write apology letters, using his own money to replace what he’s stolen… none of it gets through to him for more than 5 minutes! The worst thing is he is genuinely upset that he’s upset me when he does it but lately that still hasn’t been enough for him to click on and stop doing it!

Any advice, techniques, others who have experienced similar issues and how they resolved it etc. would be very welcome!

Although I must point out suggestions to have no chocolate in the house are unrealistic due to my partners work (although we do limit this) and putting these foods back into his diet, even in small amounts, is also out of the question due to the negative impact it has on his behaviour.

Thanks in advance!!
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